The rise of the web created an opportunity for a programming language that was independent of the user platform. Java was the first major language to take advantage of that. This program looks at various versions of Java and Java apps including Instant Coffee, the Lotus Bean Machine, Novita Live Letter, and CUChat 1.0. Originally broadcast in 1997.


This movie is part of the collection: Computer Chronicles

Keywords: java; sun microsystems; lotus

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Reviewer: Divarin - - September 23, 2011
Subject: Java in it's infancy
Ah if this episode was any hint at what Java would eventually become it would look like quite a bleak future indeed. In this historic episode we see Java being coerced into making horrible looking web sites by developers that couldn't be bothered to learn how to write a single line of code.

Don't let the critical tone of this review keep you from watching it. This is a great episode. It's just that watching someone use Java to make a web site that looks like an aquarium and clicking on a fish makes another fish disappear (as if that sort of user interface makes any sense at all) is a lot like watching alchemists experimenting with different chemical reactions; experimental and not at all practical (which is a good thing).

Reviewer: Babhnan - - September 10, 2011
Subject: Great work
this z gr8 work...4 those who r begineers
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